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3129704

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
A 47-year-old housewife presented with nonproductive cough, progressive breathlessness and intermittent fever during gold treatment, originally prescribed for seropositive polyarthritis, which later fulfilled the criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). An open lung biopsy showed abundant interstitial edema with mononuclear inflammatory cells and some eosinophils, and slight bronchiolitis. The picture was nonspecific but suggestive of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Electron microscopy revealed splitting and local disappearance of the basal laminae of the alveolar capillaries, venules and alveolar epithelium. This injury was confirmed by immunohistochemical staining for type IV collagen and laminin, the major components of basal laminae. In most macrophages there was lysosomal electron dense granular material, i.e. aurosomes, which gave the spectrum of gold in electron microprobe analysis. After the gold treatment was stopped the pulmonary symptoms gradually decreased during several months and no permanent lung disease remained. Whereas the pulmonary manifestation could have been due to her underlying disease we discuss in this study the possibility of its being gold induced.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0344-0338
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
183
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
46-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Bronchiolo-alveolitis with pulmonary basal lamina injury in a rheumatoid patient during gold treatment.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Oulu, Finland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't